2025 BKT World Men's Curling

When Moose Jaw was announced as the host city for the 2025 BKT World Men’s Curling Championship, expectations from Curling Canada were high. 

Moose Jaw had hosted a successful Canada Cup in 2012 and the Scotties Tournament of Hearts national women’s championships in 2015 and 2020, but this time Moose Jaw was on the world stage. 

After several months of planning, all that hard work paid off for the BKT World Men’s Curling Championship hosting committee, which brought the major championship to Moose Jaw.

Over nine days at the Temple Gardens Centre, curling fans took in some of the best curling the world has to offer, as well as the entertainment in The Patch at the Moose Jaw Curling Centre.

Coun. Dawn Luhning rose on a point of privilege during public acknowledgements at last night’s city council meeting to praise the BKT World Men’s Curling Championship organizing committee for pulling off an outstanding event. 

Luhning had to make a point of privilege as it related to another member of council. Coun. Heather Eby was one of the vice-chairs of the organizing committee. 

Having Moose Jaw host the BKT World Men’s Curling Championship last week not only met, but exceeded, expectations for the business community. 

Hotel rooms were booked solid, restaurants and bars were packed to capacity, and downtown stores were seeing items fly off the shelves. 

The business community knew that the men’s world curling championship would be a massive event, but no one anticipated it would blow up to what it became. 

Both players and fans had nothing but great things to say about Moose Jaw after hosting the BKT World Men’s Curling Championship at the Temple Gardens Centre. 

Over nine days last week, curling fans packed the arena to watch the best curlers in the world compete, with Team Scotland being crowned world champions on Sunday afternoon. 

Bruce Mouat and Team Scotland are two-time world men’s curling champions.

Scotland downed Switzerland 5-4 in the BKT World Men’s Curling Championship final on Sunday afternoon at the Temple Gardens Centre.

The team consisted of Mouat, third Grant Hardie, second Bobby Lammie, lead Hammy McMillan and alternate Kyle Waddell.

Mouat won his first title in 2023, also on Canadian soil, in Ottawa.

Canada will win the bronze medal on home soil at the BKT World Men's Curling Championship at Temple Gardens Centre.

Skip Brad Jacobs, third Marc Kennedy, second Brett Gallant and lead Ben Hebert picked up an 11-2 win over China in the bronze medal game on Sunday morning.

"I think the reason why we were able to score so many points— not only did we get a bunch of misses, but we felt really comfortable on Sheet C all week. We loved that sheet. It felt really easy to put the broom down; it felt really easy to call line on that sheet," said Jacobs after the win.

Scotland will be playing for gold at the BKT World Men’s Curling Championship at Temple Garden Centre, while Team Canada has been relegated to the bronze medal game.

It came down to the last shot of the 10th end, but Scotland defeated Canada 7-4 in their semifinal game on Saturday night.

“If we went out and laid an egg and played terribly, I’d probably be fuming, but we played well and they made a couple more shots than us,” said Canada lead Ben Hebert.

Scotland defeated Sweden 8-7 in the qualification round and will advance to face Canada in the semifinal on Saturday afternoon at the BKT World Men's Curling Championship at the Temple Gardens Curling Club.

The semifinal will be taking place this afternoon at 3 p.m.

This also means there will be a new champion, as reigning world champion Niklas Edin of Sweden has been eliminated.

Sweden opened with the hammer. Scotland's skip Bruce Mouat drew behind a guard to avoid a blank end, forcing Edin to draw for one.

Team Canada won eight straight to finish off the round robin after an 8-5 win over the United States at the BKT World Men's Curling Championship at Temple Gardens Centre on Friday night.

Canada finished the round robin with a record of 11-1 and will receive the automatic bye into the semifinals on Saturday afternoon.